Remember those early days after you first saw the light? Those were the hard times! Kicked around in public, targets of every kind of abuse—some days it was you, other days your friends. If some friends went to prison, you stuck by them. If some enemies broke in and seized your goods, you let them go with a smile, knowing they couldn’t touch your real treasure. Nothing they did bothered you, nothing set you back. So don’t throw it all away now. You were sure of yourselves then. It’s still a sure thing! But you need to stick it out, staying with God’s plan so you’ll be there for the promised completion. It won’t be long now, he’s on the way; he’ll show up most any minute. But anyone who is right with me thrives on loyal trust; if he cuts and runs, I won’t be very happy. But we’re not quitters who lose out. Oh, no! We’ll stay with it and survive, trusting all the way. (Hebrews 10:32-39 MSG)
Have you even been kicked around or looked down upon for your beliefs?
Have you ever lost something, or freely given it away, because you know you have something that can never be taken for you.
We are together for each other but what we have in Christ can never be taken from us.
But what the author of Hebrews tells us is that we need to have that fire we had when we first believed in the promise of Christ all of our lives. Things will always be hard as a believer and follower of the way and we need to hold tight to the promise. It is a sure thing that will hold us all of our lives.
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